-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- More than 2,100 registered North Carolina sex offenders were found on the social networking site MySpace , the state attorney general 's office said Tuesday .

North Carolina bans sex offenders within the state from social networking sites where children are members .

In response to a subpoena from state Attorney General Roy Cooper , `` MySpace turned over the names , IP and e-mail addresses of 2,116 convicted North Carolina sex offenders found on its social networking Web site , '' Cooper 's office said in a written statement .

Cooper has requested similar information from Facebook , another popular social networking site , the statement said .

MySpace has told North Carolina authorities that the sex offenders it identified have been removed from the site .

North Carolina 's State Bureau of Investigation is sharing the sex offenders ' information with all 100 sheriffs in the state , Cooper 's office said .

`` It 's no secret that child predators are on these Web sites , '' Cooper said in the statement . `` Turning over information about these predators to law enforcement helps , but MySpace , Facebook and other social networks need to do much more to protect kids online . ''

North Carolina passed a law last year banning sex offenders within the state from social networking sites where children are members , making it a felony offense .

Sex offenders on social networking sites is not a new issue . Last month , Newsweek magazine reported that Facebook said it had removed 5,585 convicted sex offenders from its site between May 2008 and January 2009 . MySpace also announced it had removed 90,000 sex offenders in a two-year period , the magazine said .

Last June , the Texas attorney general 's office said it had arrested seven convicted sex offenders who violated their parole conditions by creating MySpace profiles , according to an article on the TechNewsWorld Web site .

Cooper and Richard Blumenthal , Connecticut 's attorney general , for more than three years have led a group of attorneys general in working to make social networking safer , Cooper 's office said . The group is pushing social networks to use technology such as age and identity verification to better protect users who may be children .

After discussions with the group , MySpace became the first social networking site to develop technology aimed at finding and removing sex offenders , the North Carolina statement said . Cooper is pushing Facebook to take similar steps .

But , Cooper 's office said , `` the information provided by MySpace does not include sex offenders who have not been convicted , are not registered or may be using aliases on the site . Cooper remains concerned about other sex offenders on the site who may be lying about who they are , and is continuing to ask MySpace to do more to protect children on the site . ''

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Site provided names , IP and e-mail addresses of offenders it found , AG says

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Similar information requested from Facebook networking site , he says

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MySpace says that sex offenders it identified have been removed from site

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North Carolina officials sharing sex offenders ' data with all sheriffs in the state